Robert Pape

I got a chance to see how the robots actually work for hours, not just for a few minutes.

And I did learn some things there and I'll come back to the detail in just a second.

But by doing this, by going to not just Beijing and Shanghai, which many people will do all the time here, but by going to Wuhan, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, to actually go on the shop floor, spend hours and hours and hours there, then go to dinner with all the executives to really talk about the situation here, also in the Middle East, I learned something really big, Patrick.

which is what China's doing is not just simply uplifting a company.

They are doing that.

They're uplifting whole cities.

So think not about an AI company in Pittsburgh.

think pittsburgh itself is being uplifted so what i saw um was say i'll just pick wuhan because wuhan is a steel an old steel uh city like pittsburgh is uh now it's nine million pittsburgh's about 350 000 so it's it's bigger but what they did in wuhan was they are uplifting all of the um uh medical industry

They are uplifting all of the city's transit infrastructure with AI.

I don't just mean redoing the paving the potholes here.

They are uplifting... When you go to get your driver's license in these cities that I'm in, they have rebuilt the entire buildings where it's not that they just accommodate your cell phone.

It's like...

Start cell phone, build a building around the idea of a cell phone.

This is a completely different experience where you go into the building.

It's going to say either you want a building permit or you want your driver's license here.

You're going in, and the very first thing you do is you have to tap your phone so that you get everything downloaded on your phone because there's an awful lot of forms you need to fill out.

And you might try to do this at home, but they explained to me, yes, but when we try to do that, we need to have people standing on the side so that there's always going to be a question here or there that you're going to have.

And so then what do you have?

You don't have these long lines.

The city of Chicago, motor vehicle, oh, my goodness gracious.